My Name is Macedonia, Nice to Meet You

8/13/2019 My Name is Macedonia, Nice to Meet You

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My name is

MACEDONIANice to meet You!!!


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How big

MACEDONIA is?!?


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Macedonia has atotal area of25,713 km 2

(9,928 sq mi)


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How height

MACEDONIA is?!?


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How many peoplelive in

MACEDONIA?!?


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There are2.071.210 people


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Macedonians - 1.297.981 or 64,18%Albanians - 509.083 or 25,17%Turks - 77.959 or 3,85%Roma people - 53.879 or 2,66%Serbs - 35.939 or 1,78%Vlachs - 9.695 or 0,48%Others - 86.674 or 2,18%


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SKOPJECity population - 444.000

Division population - 506.926


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Other FACTSabout

MACEDONIA?!?


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MACEDONIA is the only placein Europe to have rubies.City of Prilep has rubies,

precious gemstones which canbe seen on world catalogues.


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The Macedonian mine Alshar on Kozuvmountain is the only world source ofThallium, and a potential 'mine' for

ecological clean energy. Since 2004, theAlshar mine is a member of the

Emerald network, an orga nization for

protection of nature's rarities.


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The cavePeshna

inMakedonski Brod is describedin the New York Times asidentical to the 'imagined'

caves in the Lord of the Rings.


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Mother Theresa Was born in Skopje.


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The oldest tree in Macedoniais the Platanus Orientalis inOhrid. Whether a coincidence

or not, the tree is growingsince St. Kliment Ohridskitime, in the 9th century .


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The Macedonian city of Ohrid is the oldest on the

planet, most recently featured on ultra famous USshow Jeopardy. The Ohrid lake itself is over 3million years old. It has over 200 endemic speciesnot found on any other place on the planet. Apart

from its ancient theater (which is still in use today),the ancient Ohrid (called Lychnidos : the City ofLights) boasted a classical agora, gymnasium, civil

basilicas and temples to the Gods.


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According to NASA, Macedonia'sKokino is fourth on the list of

oldest observatories on this planet.

The number one is Abu Simbel(Egypt), Stonehenge (England),

Angkor Wad (Cambodia).


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Macedonia has 34mountains, 53 lakes, with

the oldest of course beingOhrid lake , also deepest in

the Balkans.


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One of the Titanic survivors was a Macedonian.

Stojko Dodolovski , from the village of Chucher(Skopje area), made a last second purchase of a

ticket to the Titanic from a British priest. When theship started sinking Stojko jumped into the ocean.He swam towards few of the rescue boats, but wasnot allowed to climb aboard. Stojko stayed calm andfloated on the ocean until one of the rescue boats

came back to look for survivors, several hours later.Stojko was one of the 12 survivors picked up.

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